The pitch-black arrow hurtled toward him with a terrifying aura, reaching him in an instant.
Chen Lin remained calm in the face of danger.
A veteran of countless battles, he saw at a glance that this arrow was not a physical object, but a mass of those fine spirit-transforming runes. Rather than dodge, he directly overdrawed his soul origin essence.
A full-powered strike of Soul-Destroying Finger!
Runes faintly flickered within the eerie light released by his finger, but none of its energy leaked out. All its power converged on a single point.
His fingertip met the arrow with hairbreadth precision.
Then the arrow seemed to freeze in place. Beginning at its tip, it crumbled bit by bit into countless fine runes, which vanished into the void.
"Chirp, chirp!"
The runic doll atop the beetle monster's head let out a strange cry.
Its body twisted and wavered constantly, as though it had suffered considerable backlash. Enraged, it flashed forward and lunged straight at Chang Wu.
"Die!"
Chang Wu was desperately resisting the runic flying insects clinging to him. Despair crossed his face at the sight, and he spat a mouthful of blood onto the gemstones on his belt.
The gemstones blazed with light, forming a Five-Colored Light Sword that slashed down at the runic doll.
But in tending to one danger, he left himself exposed to another.
The energy of his light barrier faltered, allowing the runic flying insects to breach it and swarm into his body.
In an instant, they devoured him down to scraps.
Only then did the light sword strike, cleaving the runic doll in two.
Yet the runic doll did not die. Instead, it merged with the runic flying insects that had finished devouring Chang Wu and re-formed its original body.
It flashed away, about to return